7.04 (yes!) and large drives

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 11/30/2013 12:36 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> I have a 3TB drive in an Astone USB3.0 enclosure. The drive is seen, but
> partitions (regardless of size and regardless of whether I use an MBR or
> GUID partition table) cannot be mounted by Ubuntu 7.04 - it reports the
> drive as being "very large", then a call to READ_CAPACITY16 fails. A bit
> of googling suggests that this issue has long since been fixed, but I
> wonder is there any workaround besides upgrading?
>
> I have 1TB drives that ARE recognised. They are in Astone USB2.0
> enclosures. If I put a 1TB drive in the new enclosure, it works. Putting
> the 3TB new drive in an old enclosure kinda works, but ONLY if the drive
> is formatted with MBR and contains a first partition of any size less
> than 800GB. The drive is recognised as an "802GB HDD". Larger partitions
> are seen and are even mountable, but things like e2fsck complain that
> the partition is larger than the disk, and that something must be
> corrupted. I'm not sure how safe it would be to proceed under those
> circumstances.
>
> For now, I've given up and am using 800GB of the drive because that's
> better than nothing.
>
> Any ideas as to what I might do to get more of the drive recognised and
> mounted? Is it safe to use the drive when the drive parameters disagree
> with the file system parameters?
>
> Please don't suggest upgrading Ubuntu, that much I have figured out by
> myself :-)
>
> Regards, K.
>
     OK, I won't suggest it, but there is a high probability that you're 
hosed with an OS that old. IIRC, 3TB drives weren't even available when 
7.04 came out.

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